Can cranberry products be used to prevent UTIs?

Vanessa Jordan

doi:10.1071/HC23161

RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

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Can cranberry products be used to prevent UTIs?

Vanessa Jordan

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¹ Department Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland, Grafton Campus, Auckland, New Zealand.

^* Correspondence to: v.jordan@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 15(4) 390-391 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23161

Submitted: 30 November 2023 Accepted: 1 December 2023 Published: 15 December 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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